Overview
This 5-day instructor-led course will provide students with the key knowledge required to deploy and configure Microsoft Azure Stack. Using hands-on labs, students will learn the following:
- The key features and functionality of Microsoft Azure Stack
- The differences between Microsoft Azure Stack, Microsoft Azure and Windows Azure Pack
- The architecture and components of Microsoft Azure and Windows Azure Pack
- How to deploying Microsoft Azure Stack
- Windows Server Roles and Features used in Microsoft Azure Stack
- How identity and authentication works in Microsoft Azure Stack
- How Microsoft Azure Stack enables DevOps
- How to create and manage Azure Resource Manager templates
- How to create and manage Plans
- How to create and manage Offers and Delegation
- Manage the Marketplace in Microsoft Azure Stack
- Software Defined Networking in Microsoft Azure Stack
- How to provision Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure Stack
- Configuring Resource Providers in Microsoft Azure Stack
- How to monitor and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Stack
- Understand how licensing and billing works in Microsoft Azure Stack
Prerequisites
Those who wish to attend this course should meet the following prerequisites:
- Working knowledge of Windows Server 2016
- Working knowledge of SQL Server 2014
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure
Who Should Attend?
This course is recommended for service administrators, devops and cloud architects who are interested in using Microsoft Azure Stack to provide cloud services to their end-users or customers from within their own datacenter.
Course Outline
- What is Azure Stack?
- Comparing Azure Stack with Microsoft Azure
- Comparing Azure Stack to Windows Azure Pack
- Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016
- Identity and Authentication
Lab: Reviewing the Azure Stack Infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture
- Azure Stack Prerequisites
- Installing Azure Stack
Lab: Confirming prerequisites and installing Microsoft Azure Stack
- Working with Plans and Offers
- Microsoft Azure Stack Marketplace
- Enabling Multi-Tenancy in Azure Stack
- Integrating Azure Stack with Windows Azure Pack
Lab: Managing Offers and Plans in Microsoft Azure Stack
- Technologies used in Microsoft Azure Stack for DevOps
- Azure Resource Manager Templates
- Third-party Resource Providers
Lab: Debugging and Deploying ARM Templates
- Software Defined Networking improvements with Microsoft Azure Stack and Windows Server 2016
- Azure Stack Storage
- Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure Stack
Lab: Provision Storage and Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure Stack
- Understand the Platform as a Service
- SQL Server and MySQL Server Providers in Microsoft Azure Stack
- App Service Resource Provider
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Functions
Lab: Configuring Resource Providers in Microsoft Azure Stack
- Field Replaceable Unit
- Azure Stack Control Plane Monitoring
- Patching the Azure Stack Infrastructure
- Monitoring Guest Workloads in Microsoft Azure Stack
- Troubleshooting Azure Stack
- Protecting Azure Stack and Tenant Workloads
Lab: Troubleshooting and Monitoring Microsoft Azure Stack and Guest Operating Systems
- How to license and pay for Azure Stack
- Azure Consistent Usage API
- Business Costs and Models with Azure Stack
Lab: Obtaining Usage Information
